Watch-holding case.



W. E. PORTER.

WATCH HOLDING CASE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1909.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILSON E. PORTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO NEW HAVEN CLOCK 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

WATCH-HOLDING CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

Application filed May 17, 1909. Serial No. 496,507.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILSON E. PORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vatch-Holding Cases; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figures of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1 a view in front elevation of a watch-holding case constructed in accordance with my invention and shown as containing a watch. Fig. 2 a view thereof in rear elevation. Fig. 3 a plan view thereof with the watch removed. Fig. 4 a detached plan view of the flanged cover of the case. Fig. 5 a corresponding view of the flanged case-body. Fig. 6 a view in inside elevation of the flanged cover of the case. Fig. 7 a view in vertical central section through the case in which the watch is shown by broken lines.

My invention relates to an improvement in watch-holding cases, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture, a simple, compact and convenient case for virtually converting watches into clocks.

Vith these ends in view my invention consists in a watch-holding case having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a flanged case-body 2 of substantially rectangular form, though its corners are rounded ofl. The flat outer face of this case-body is formed with a large circular opening 3 for the partial projection through it of the beveled crystal 4 of the watch 5. As shown in Fig. 7 the partial projection of the crystal through the opening 3 not only centers the watch in the case, but gives a finished appearance to the little clock produced by inclosing the watch in the case. The front of the case-body 2, it will be understood, is perfectly flat. The flange of the casebody 2 is formed with a deep rearwardly opening slot 6 which receives the pendant stem 7 which occupies the rounded forward end of the slot 6, the rear end of which is closed by the forwardly projecting narrow flange 8 of the flat cover 9 which has the same rectangular shape with rounded corners as the case-body 2, the flange 8 being set just enough within the edge of the cover 9 to result in the production of a shoulder 10 extending entirely around the cover and engaging with the rear edge of the flange of the case-body so as to limit the inward movement of the cover with respect to the case-body, an exposed joint being in this way formed on the outside of the case.

Inasmuch as in my improved watch-holding case the central opening in the front face of the casebody is in the plane thereof, and inasmuch as the back of the watch-case falls substantially in the plane of the inside face of the back of the cover, the thickness of the case, as a whole, is reduced to the minimum.

By preference, although this is not necessary, I locate a cushion ll of felt or other corresponding material, within the cover so as to guard against the scratching of the back of the watch when the same is in place within the case.

My improved watch-holding case on account of its flat front and back, is easily finished, and not only presents a neat appearance, but permits the thickness of the finished case to be reduced to the minimum as no portion of the case is set inward either front or back for clamping the watch. Moreover as the friction employed to hold the back in place falls upon its flange, there is no abrasion of any finished portion of the case proper by friction.

am aware that a two-part rectangular watch-holding case consisting of two flanged shells differentiated in size to permit them to be telescoped one within the other and having flanges of corresponding depth formed with registering slots for the reception and outward extension of the watch pendant, is old, and do not claim, therefore, a two-part sheet-metal watch-holding case broadly when the parts are frictioned together, but only my particular construction.

I claim In a watch-holding case, the combination with a flanged sheet-metal case-body adapted in the external conformation of its flange to be self-supporting in a vertical position, and the flat front face of the said body being formed in the plane thereof with a circular opening through which a portion of the watch-crystal may project, and the upper portion of the said flange of the case-body rear open end of the said slot in the flange being formed with a rearwardly opening of the case-body.

slot for the reception of the pendant stein In testimony whereof, I have signed this of the watch; of a fiat sheet-metal cover specification in the presence of two subscribformed with a shoulder abutting against the ing witnesses.

rear ed 'e of the flan e of the case-body for which the said shoul der forms a finish, and WILSON PORTER the said cover being also formed with a nar- Witnesses:

row flange entering the case-body with which FREDERIC C. EARLE,

10 it has frictional engagement and closing the CLARA L. W'EED. 

